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  2. Boots theory - Wikipedia

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    A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness. [4]

  3. CORE Econ - Wikipedia

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    A textbook in 22 chapters that provides a complete introduction to economics and is used in approximately 500 universities worldwide. This economics textbook was designed as the source material for taught courses in the first year of an undergraduate degree, although it has also been used in schools, and for advanced courses in public policy.

  4. Category:Economics books - Wikipedia

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    Economics books by writer (12 C, 2 P) A. ... Pages in category "Economics books" ... How Economists Work and Think;

  5. List of important publications in economics - Wikipedia

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    Description: Widely used textbook. Importance: Introduction Development macroeconomics – Pierre-Richard Agénor and Peter J. Montiel. Description: Widely used textbook. Importance: Introduction Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report (2009) – Shahid Yusuf.

  6. Economics (textbook) - Wikipedia

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    Economics was the second Keynesian textbook in the United States, following the 1947 The Elements of Economics, by Lorie Tarshis.Like Tarshis's work, Economics was attacked by American conservatives (as part of the Second Red Scare, or McCarthyism), universities that adopted it were subject to "conservative business pressuring", and Samuelson was accused of Communism.

  7. Erik S. Reinert - Wikipedia

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    His work on the role of the state in economic growth [23] has been republished in Chinese, Estonian, Russian, and Spanish. A recurrent theme in the work of Erik Reinert is the cyclicality of economic thought and theories, [24] [25] and the role of development geography in economics. [26]

  8. Poor Economics - Wikipedia

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    Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee [1] and Esther Duflo, [2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates.

  9. Foundations of Economic Analysis - Wikipedia

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    Richard N. Cooper (1997) writes that the book "drastically redirected the advanced study of economics toward greater and more productive use of mathematics." [5] Notwithstanding the important work of Arrow, Kotaro Suzumura (1987) affirms the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function as "logically impeccable." [6]